“Most” of 100,000 is at least 50,001.
Is it a good thing that a self-sustaining population of salmon now inhabit that creek, or is this going to be an invasive species story next year?
100,000 Live Salmon Spilled Off a Truck. Most Landed in a Creek and Lived.
Submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
kautau@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The article states it’s a little over 75,000. It also states that those salmon will then follow the river to the ocean since they are freshly hatched salmon they will be migrating to the ocean, which is what the tanker was transporting them to do anyway
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If it were that easy, the hatchery would just do that and save money on trucking.
Don’t salmon swim upstream to spawn? I assume the reason they don’t release them right there is the risk some would stick around and mess up an existing ecosystem.
Spendrill@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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